Father of suspected Connecticut shooter "in state of disbelief"

December 15, 2012|Reuters

(HANDOUT, Reuters)

(Reuters) - The father of the man suspected of killing 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school said on Saturday he was in a "state of disbelief" and was fully cooperating with law enforcement officials investigating the massacre.

Peter Lanza, father of 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who law enforcement officials have said burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday and killed 20 children and six adults, said: "We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why."

"We have cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so," Peter Lanza said in a statement. "Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired."